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    bv every purchase he made . In the letter , last quoted , ( p . 12 . ) Whitfiel d proposes " that the Negro children belonging to the college shall be instructed in their intervals of labour , by one of the

    poorer students / ' as already " done by one of the scholars in the Orphan House . " He also hopes to provide for educating and main , mining a number of Indian children from the Creeks , Choctaws , and Cherokee * , and the other neig hbouring nations . " Whitfield died at Newbury , near Boston , in

    17 ^ 0 . Had he lived to witness in England , the discussions on the subject of the slave trade , it can scarcely be questioned , what side he would have espoused . A man so well-natured , however ill *

    natured his creed may be esteemed by some Christians , must have proved a son of thunder in the cause of the abolitionists .

    VERAX . P . S . Annexed to the pamphlet I have quoted , is " The Plan and Elevation of the present and intended Buildings of the Georgia Orphan House Academy . " The " intended students' houses were wings to the

    original building , each about 250 feet long . " Morse ( Amer . Geog . 2 d Ed . p . 456 , ) says , that « Mr . Whitfield made his assignment of the Orphan House in trust to the Countess of Huntingdon , Soon

    after his death a charter was granted , but , unfortunately , on the 30 th of May , 1775 , the Orphan House building caught fire , and was entirely consumed ,- except the two wings which are still remaintog . The American war soon after

    came on , and put every thing into confusion , and the funds have ever Wee lain in an unproductive state . " So little was there prophetie in the vignette ,- with which

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    the engraver , no doubt at Mr . W ' s . suggestion , had ornamented his Plan and , as a motto , this allusion to the Mosaic history , The bush burned withjire and the bush

    was ii&t consumed . Morse , how . ever , thinks it" probable , that the college estate may , hereafter , be so incorporated with the University of Georgia , as to subserve the original and pious purposes of its founder * ' —

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    . i VUi-lUVi Fire-Ordeah &R , March 3 , 181 !• Give me leave to add to you * Gleaner , No . 92- an instance of

    a proposed Fire-ordcaly not indeed at the hazard of persons , but of books . I have met with the story in Ci An Account / ' of Danish

    Missions to the East , at the Com * mencement of the last century . The missionary , Bartfiolemeu Ziegenbalgh , in his letter from Tranquebar , dated ^ Oct . 1 , lTOC ? , having mentioned his attempts for the conversion of the Malabar

    Hea"thens , adds . — Some had the confidence to desire us to-day , that we would thrust a book , containing the principles of our religion into the fire ; and they would do the same with another , containing the rites of their worship . If theirs should happen to be consumed by the fire , they would all turn Christians ; but , if ours should undergo that fate , and theirs remain un «

    hurt , we should then all come over to them , and entertain the same belief and fancies which they did . But , in case the fir « e should destroy both the books , then neither of the contending parties should be in the right . We replied ,

    that vre ought not to put the great God to such trifling trials , contrived ^ by the itch of a vain and wanton curiosity , and no ways grounded on any revelations of Cod ' s wihv '—Dan , Mis- p . i . p . 34 * In Dn Priestley ' s History of the Christian Church , is a similar

    story ., at a much earlier period , though I cannot recollect the date Perhaps one of your reader may supply iu OTIOSUS |

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    Fire-Ordeal . 287

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1811, page 287, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2416/page/31/